November 05, 2012, 3:05PM

"I'm a little skeptical of what I've seen so far," said Sen. Dick Brewbaker, R-Pike Road. "If we have the money to repay $500 million, why did we borrow it?" The latest repayment talk comes on top of $539 million Alabama took from savings in 2008 and still owes. Full story »

September 28, 2012, 1:59PM

But you know how politicians are when it comes to money. They're like a man trying to score with a woman. They'll say anything to get their hands on it, and when they get it, BOOM. They lose their memory. Full story »

September 17, 2012, 5:15PM

Parents and others on the Baldwin County public school system's news email list received a message from Superintendent Alan Lee over the weekend urging them to vote in today's election on borrowing $437 million from the Alabama Trust Fund. Full story »

September 16, 2012, 6:15AM

"Moving funds from Alabama Trust Fund is nothing short of robbing taxpayers of their hard-earned money," said Bob Williams, president of the non-profit budget reform group, State Budget Solutions. While Williams is right, and Alabama does need some fundamental reforms, especially in its bottom-up, unfair tax system, a no vote this week is much more dangerous than a yes vote. Full story »

September 16, 2012, 6:05AM

What I am proposing is combining all state revenues into one budgetary fund and then use a protected "ratio formula" to distribute the monies throughout state government -- the majority to education and the remainder to all else Full story »

September 15, 2012, 4:45AM

A collection of Press-Register reader Sound Off calls from Saturday, Sept. 15, with callers expressing opinions on everything from Tuesday's vote on a constitutional amendment that would allow the Legislature to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars from the Alabama Trust Fund to the state's General Fund, to a call for a crackdown on unlicensed animals. Full story »

September 03, 2012, 4:45AM

A collection of Press-Register reader Sound Off calls from Monday, Sept. 3, 2012, with callers expressing opinions on everything from Bentley's storm evacuation call, to the proposed amendment that would transfer money from the Alabama Trust Fund to the General Fund. Full story »

September 02, 2012, 8:12PM

I wholeheartedly agree that we must fund programs for truly needy Alabama citizens, but I believe it is short-sighted to transfer one-fifth of the principal of the Alabama Trust Fund to the General Fund with no provision to pay it back. Full story »

August 26, 2012, 6:00AM

On Sept. 18, voters will be asked to approve a constitutional amendment to transfer $145 million a year for three years from the Alabama Trust Fund to the General Fund. Should voters turn down the transfer, the results could be devastating to state services. Full story »

August 02, 2012, 3:50PM

The Huntsville-based entrepreneur, who founded 3-D Research and Synapse in Cummings Research Park, said a proposal to borrow more than $400 million from the Alabama Trust Fund is not the best way to cover the state's fiscal shortfalls. Full story »

June 05, 2012, 4:00PM

''Raising taxes is really not something that I intend to do. If this thing fails, I'm still not going to do it,'' Bentley said at a meeting of the board that oversees the Alabama Trust Fund, a state savings account that has about $2.28 billion in cash and invested assets. Full story »